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- From: sa121@cl.cam.ac.uk (S. Arrowsmith)
- Subject: Re: How to have a good cry?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.165442.15683@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- References: <1993Jan25.171216.22461@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1993Jan25.195859.15735@news.cs.brandeis.edu> <30837@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:54:42 GMT
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- In article <30837@castle.ed.ac.uk> moragw@castle.ed.ac.uk (Alloy Serving Woman) writes:
- >
- >I think I used up all my tears when I was a child, I am aggresively
- >defensive when upset nowadays.
- >
- "All tears shed long ago" -- yeah, know what you mean. But I always
- got attacked all the more for crying, being a boy -- it was a case of
- forever being told not to show any emotion whatsoever. Particularly
- not aggression. They trained me pretty well, you know -- this wall
- of defensive lack of emotion is as good as impenetrable. There's
- not really anything left for me to cry for.
-
- > [ ... ] I used to buy cheap crockery from jumble sales and take them
- >out to the drive where I'd hurl them at the wall. It was very
- >satisfying.
- >
- Destruction has always been more upsetting than satisfying to me -- I
- tend to regret anything of that sort rather quickly. The only time
- that sort of thing has been even slightly useful was after one of my
- second-year undergrad exams, when I repeatedly threw one of my shoes
- at a wall, until I started feeling guilty 'cos it was leaving marks....
-
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